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Sound Off! (Feb. 12)

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02/12/2013 03:38:19 AM MST

Jim Harbison thinks the taxpayers will save money by building the 911 call center on the East Mesa. If the city and county really want to save money they will put the 911 call center in the vacant City Hall building on Church Street. It is plenty large enough for future expansion for years to come.

Mark D'Antonio has been DA for all of about a month and already he's going easy on people who should be charged with crimes then changing his mind and going back on his word. That's what you get when you elect a former defense attorney to be the district attorney.

Fascinating to read the Sun-News repeating the "minimum wage increase leads to job loss" theory. It didn't happen in Santa Fe, it didn't happen in Albuquerque, and it didn't happen the more than 30 time the federal minimum has been raised.

I find it interesting that the new NMSU football coach has decided that New Mexico does not have the athletes to come and play for him at NMSU. Who is he trying to kid? NMSU's team is a losing team regardless, they should bring New Mexico players into this and maybe get an audience.

It takes a lot of gall for the NMSU AD to gloat. No football conference, a watered-down conference in other sports and no money. If a team does win the conference title they get eliminated in the first round because of the weak teams they play all year.

The environmentalists who came up with all the storm water retention ponds around our schools and new construction were certainly not thinking of all the mosquitoes that are currently breeding there in the millions.

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Why is it necessary to hold runoff water there just to increase everyone's chances of contracting West Nile?

The New Mexico Legislature has bent over backwards to please Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic by approving the spaceflight informed consent law. Now it is time for Virgin Galactic to stand up and deliver. Let's hope they have solved their engine problems and have a spaceflight by 2014.

This is in response to the lady complaining about the Jump Program saying that their are scores are still at the bottom. Are you calling my son or daughter dumb? Because she is in the Jump Program and I think she is doing remarkably well.

"With declining budgets at all levels of government ..." I'm sure those words were a shock to all faithful Harbison readers. It's true that the present administration has made the federal government smaller and cheaper, but if I wanted truth, I wouldn't read Harbison's column.

I don't understand why all these proposed gun laws target law-abiding citizens primarily. Chicago police estimate that 80 percent of homicides in the city are gang-related. Since 2007, more than 270 children have been killed there — a rate of three Newtowns per year.

They finally got a bipartisan thing going in Washington. But they are all anti-drones because it is working. I am sorry, the bleeding hearts aren't really what represents the majority of Americans. We are happy to see these people die.

America should take great pride in the amazingly successful rescue of the Alabama child by the FBI, the government. And the NRA considers these heroes the enemy? Ridiculous.

The Obama administration's proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers' benefits untouched.